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Summary

For its broad range of engaging literature and flexible arrangement at the lowest net price, the shorter edition ofLiterature: The Human Experienceis a classroom favorite, now with more help for reading literature and an emphasis on global ideas. Selections are carefully chosen and arranged around the classic themes of humanity, such asLove and Hate and Culture and Identity, to help students connect what they read to their own life experiences. The shorter edition offers more selections from around the globe and new ways to open students' eyes to a broader world literature.

Author Biography

RICHARD ABCARIAN (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for 37 years. During his teaching career, he won two Fulbright professorships. In addition to editing Literature: The Human Experience and the compact edition, he is the editor of a critical edition of Richard Wright's A Native Son, as well as several other literature text books.

MARVIN KLOTZ (Ph.D., New York University) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for 33 years and won Northridge's distinguished teaching award in 1983. He is also the winner of two Fulbright professorships (in Vietnam and Iraq) and was a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Fellow twice. In addition to editing Literature: The Human Experience and several other textbooks, he coauthored a guide and index to the characters in Faulkner's fiction.

Table of Contents

PREFACEINTRODUCTION

RESPONDING TO LITERATUREEmily Dickinson, There Is No Frigate Like A BookWhy We Read LiteratureReading ActivelyReading and Thinking CriticallyReading Fiction The Methods of FictionTonePlotCharacterizationSettingPoint of ViewIronyTheme Exploring FictionReading PoetryWalt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Word Choice Figurative Language The Music of Poetry Exploring Poetry*Annotating While You Read*William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29*Edward Arlington Robinson, How Annandale Went OutReading Drama Stages and Staging The Elements of DramaCharactersDramatic IronyPlot and Conflict Exploring DramaReading Essays Types of EssaysNarrative EssaysDescriptive EssaysExpository EssaysArgumentative Essays Analyzing the EssayThe ThesisStructure and DetailStyle and Tone Exploring Essays